people weren t happy about the idea there was going to be bloodshed in the country, more bloodshed but also very concerned as well about what the coming weeks, months will bring as vladimir putin tries to re-establish his authority after it took a severe denting following that military takeover attempt. whatever it was. at the weekend. i went down to red square, you know, to try and sort of gauge what people s general views are on the street, take a listen see what they had to say. i ve come to the center of the russian capital to try to get a sense of how this city feels in the aftermath of that attempted military uprising of the weekend. tell you, it feels pretty relaxed here here a lot of russians, tourists here taking photographs of these iconic sites. i was trying to get into red square actually which is just
out earlier in the year and give himself a bit of a chance of denting that labour lead. we see in the polls by the time of an election which is very likely in 2024 at the very latest, it could go a couple of weeks into 2025, that would mean campaigning over christmas. i think he would be hoping that he can get through this rather gruesome periods of extreme warfare and he can come out, perhaps with his position ultimately strengthened. that would be the best case scenario for rishi sunak, given where things are now. some would say there are parallels with the 19905 and a lot of that division that we saw in the latter years of the major government. do you see it like that? i years of the major government. do you see it like that? you see it like that? i was around there, i you see it like that? i was around there. i was you see it like that? i was around there, i was in you see it like that? i was around there, i was in number you see it like that? i was around there, i was in num
fits and starts, very little legislative accomplishments and investigations that were supposed to be about denting joe biden that have instead have become about being defensive towards trump. yeah, it s not great, sam unlike my stories, which, by the way, i m sorry you can t stay with us. but next hour, i m going to be telling you how in 1993, willie and i tried to break into the l ouvre with nothing but pads and ball bearings. the ball bearings and gauze pads didn t get us in there we ll tell that story on the other side of the break. sam stein, thanks so much. i would say go, sox, but right now, it seems futile nah still ahead, president biden named chicago as host of the 2024 national democratic convention that s kind of interesting we ll talk about that and talk to one lawmaker who played a major role in putting that spotlight on that city in the midwest. also, democratic senator tammy duckworth in illinois,
proposing this energy price cap on russian gas and that is something that president putin is calling stupid and he is threatening to cut off all supply if they follow through with it. but the eu commission chief ursula von der leyen argues that this is because they need to weaken what we were just talking about, that hold president putin has over europe, as well as pointing to a key ethical concern. she actually explains that, we can listen to that now. we all know that our sanctions are deeply grinding into the russian economy, with a heavy negative impact. but putin is partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues, so here the objective is that we must cut russia s revenues which putin uses to finance his atrocious war in ukraine. so she s talking about denting president putin s financial war chest for his invasion of ukraine and she also argued that the eu has taken other steps already. for example, when it